Maise was credited with 'barks and roars' in the liner notes as a result. The instrumental break of 'Physical' (at 3:49) features a half-speed recording of her barking, and Sean Beavan's line, 'Ow!.fucker!', after Maise bit him. Reznor's dog, Maise, was invited to the production of the EP. Then I used a couple of key ingredients to make it unlike any 'real' sound.' ДЄs Reznor explains in retrospect: ' Broken had a lot of the super-thick chunk sound, and almost every guitar sound on that record was me playing through an old Zoom pedal and then going direct into Digidesign's TurboSynth. English record producer Flood, who produced ' Head Like a Hole' and ' Terrible Lie', the first two tracks on Pretty Hate Machine (1989), returned to work in 1992 on the EP for 'Wish', 'Last' and ' Gave Up'. Reznor secretly made the then-untitled recording under various pseudonyms to avoid record company interference. It was good, after I put my raving lunatic act on. But Interscope went into it like they really wanted to know what I wanted. And I was real pissed off at him at first because it was going from one bad situation to potentially another one. Jimmy Iovine got involved with Interscope, and we kind of got slave-traded. Flood and I had to record Broken under a different band name, because if TVT found out we were recording, they could confiscate all our shit and release it. So I felt like, well, I've finally got this thing going but it's dead. But they made it pretty clear they weren't ready to sell. We made it very clear we were not doing another record for TVT. He reached a deal with the record label Interscope Records: Reznor later said that he hated TVT, in part due to their classification of Nine Inch Nails as a synth-pop band. This much-publicized feud with TVT led Reznor to use a variety of monikers for the production of his next studio release. Reznor then objected to the label's attempted interference with his intellectual property. Reznor demanded his label terminate his contract, due to their restriction of his creative control of the Nine Inch Nails project. Steve Gottlieb, the CEO of TVT Records, was insistent that he would not release anything other than an album very similar to Pretty Hate Machine. The recording helped to propel Nine Inch Nails into mainstream popularity, and later received two Grammy Awards (both for Best Metal Performance) for the songs ' Wish' and ' Happiness in Slavery'.ДЄfter the commercial and critical success of Pretty Hate Machine (1989), TVT Records, the first record label to sign the band, pressured Trent Reznor to record a very similar album in the hope that it would have similarly successful singles. The record was promoted with music videos for five of the eight songs, which were censored due to their violent content, as well as a short film of the same name, which was never officially released, but was later leaked as a bootleg.ДЄlthough it was derided by some critics for its lyrical content, Broken also received positive reviews from critics and reached number seven on the US Billboard 200, eventually receiving a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Its lyrical themes are in line with those of their succeeding work. The release consists entirely of new material and replaces the synth-pop style of the band's 1989 debut album Pretty Hate Machine with a considerably heavier sound that would act as a precursor to their second album The Downward Spiral (1994).

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